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This has taken ages to do, all the glyphs and sculptures made in greenstuff, which I then cast for sanity's sake...

I've made it with a number of options so it's not always the same building in a game...






I'm gonna Kickstart this, what are the rules about KS's on here?

Nice bright colors

For KS's put it up in the news and rumors section with relevant links/info.

Thanks, the Maya painted all their major buildings so I thought it had to be done really. Much better than just a sandstone finish I think.

That is an impressive amount of work. I love a terrain centerpiece of this nature that brings out the flavor of the army you're playing. Looks great, I like the coloring. (The Mayans did color everything, we have the trace pigments to prove it, so I agree, you had to do it. Most people don't know but the majority of ancient statues, buildings etc were colored...even some of the Greek and Roman stuff that looks great as marble...colored, generally gaudily).

Hope you get some reward for the time and effort this took. Don't suppose you would share some of the basics of your Greenstuff to Casting method?

Brilliant, nice intricate work. I agree with edwardmyst it really compliments the miniatures, they look great on it.
I’d also love to hear some info on your process, if you feel inclined.

Thanks folks. KS approved this for launch much faster than I expected so I've pressed the big red button to launch it so I am a bit tied up BUT I'd be delighted to share how I made them. I have very few WIP photos tbh but will share 'em. Basically I decided on a "grid" size to build to, in this case 15mm, so I could make components which would always fit together, and they nearly always do...

Got some 2mm MDF laser cut to size put a thin coat of GS onto them and roughed it a bit so fresher GS will stick. Found a pile of authentic references and started sculpting them...


I did two batches of 20, and one batch of lizardman glyphs too, although the pyramid only has Maya glyphs on it...


Once I've a batch completed and cured I spray them with primer just as a sealant...


Then I box them up, make a rubber mould and cast them in resin...


The stone work is done by pressing stones, okay sometimes hitting them with a hammer, into foamed PVC (palight, foamex, etc) which is a great material, it's like foamboard's sexier older sister.


I cheated on the calendar and bought a commercial licenced 3D print, for sanity's sake really.

I'll be posting the project in the news section in a minute, if you want to make something decorated with glyphs without having to make them they are available seperately.

Any questions just ask.

Thanks for the process. You really did a lot of intricate work here and deserve a huge thumbs up!

Amazing work. Absolutely stunning result!

Thanks chaps.

Woow!, amazing skills you have.

Very generous of you, but they're nothing special although I am getting better after mucking about with the four foot of gs I got through for this.

Nice work. I particularly appreciate the garish paint job. Archaeology suggests many of the now plain stone monuments from antiquity were originally very colourful. Also Slann have never struck me as a race that would settle on beige decor.

Thanks. Archaelogists debated about whether the Maya did paint their major buildings, and once they excavated under some pyramids they found other temples, etc, which still had the paint on. That effectively settled it. This paints well as a sand stony ruin but I felt it had to be done, not least because I'm also using it for Mayan gaming.

Wow interesting stuff!, thanks.

That looks great, solid construction, well painted. Theme executed perfectly. Well done!

Oh yeah, why did i just say "interesting stuff", very rude of me to not mention that it is excellent modeling / painting you have done here, just like Jabbakahut said.

Thanks guys.

No worries Stormatious.